Two teams that got off to hot starts, only to recently fall on hard times, meet tonight in Anaheim when the Ducks host the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Ducks: Winless in five, including Wednesday’s 4-3 overtime loss at home to the Devils. “We’re not playing great hockey right now,” said d-man Ben Lovejoy. “We want to be an elite team in this league, and we’re not playing like it.”

The Lightning: Three straight losses by a combined score of 16-6. And no Steven Stamkos to rescue them. “Things had been going our way for a long time this year to start the season,” said head coach Jon Cooper. “And now not so much.”

For now, both teams remain comfortably in a playoff position; however, there’s reason to wonder how long that will last. The Lightning won’t have Stamkos back for a while, and teams like the Rangers and Flyers have started to find their footing in the Eastern Conference. The Ducks, meanwhile, have a pretty tough slate of games on the horizon, as you can see:

Minnesota Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk has been the most difficult goalies to score against this season. Leave it to a high-level player like Leon Draisaitl to make it look this, well, “easy.”

Draisaitl scored his 13th goal of 2016-17 by capping this pretty give-and-go play with Benoit Pouliot. You can see the frustration from Dubnyk at the end of the tally, as if he was saying “How was I supposed to stop that?” (though probably with more colorful language).

Draisaitl came into Friday with five goals and three assists in his last five games, so he’s been almost unstoppable lately.